Undelete deleted Media

Hopefull · Post by **Hopefull** » Tue Jan 21, 2003 4:54 am

Here's the scenario:

Showing awsome media management system to friend - cool
Friend wants to see all files on system - click on "Media" then "C:" drive
Friend jokingly presses "delete" and "enter"
All media gone from Songs-db
Try to rescan to load back in - nothing found - mild panic
Use windows explorer - cant find files - much swearing and cursing
Remember "recycle bin" - check find its empty - starts strangling ex-friend thinking about the hundreds of hours spent ripping entire collection.

Question : Once deleted from the media folder in songs-db how can they be undeleted?

Post by **jiri** » Tue Jan 21, 2003 8:15 am

When you delete media, it is deleted in the database only, real files on your drive are not affected. This action cannot be undone, but there is probably a little need for it.

When you want to delete a real file(s), you must select song(s) and confirm both removal from the database and from your drive. Currently files are really deleted, but they will be deleted to Recycle Bin (by option) in the future.

Anyway, it is not bad idea to backup the database from time to time, because anything can happen (computer failure, ...).

Jiri